"The Magnificent Seven The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American Western film directed by John Sturges and starring Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, James Coburn and Horst Buchholz. The film is an Old West–style remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film ""Seven Samurai"". Brynner, McQueen, Bronson, Vaughn, Dexter, Coburn and Buchholz portray the title characters, a group of seven gunfighters hired to protect a small village in Mexico from a group of marauding bandits (whose leader is played by Wallach). The film's musical score was composed by Elmer Bernstein. In 2013, the film"
"The Magnificent Seven (2016 film) The Magnificent Seven is a 2016 American western action film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Nic Pizzolatto and Richard Wenk. It is a remake of the 1960 film of the same name, which in turn is a reimagining of the 1954 film ""Seven Samurai"". The film stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Haley Bennett, and Peter Sarsgaard. It is the final film of composer James Horner, who died the previous year after composing part of the score; his friend Simon Franglen completed the music."
"The Magnificent Seven (TV series) The Magnificent Seven is an American western television series based on the 1960 movie, which was itself a remake of the Japanese film ""Seven Samurai"". The series premiered on January 3, 1998, and ran for two seasons on CBS, airing through July 3, 2000. The cast of ""The Magnificent Seven"" included Michael Biehn, Eric Close, and Ron Perlman. Robert Vaughn, who played one of the seven gunmen in the original 1960 movie, had a recurring role as a crusading judge on the series. Seven men from the western United States band together and form the"
"of ""Rolling Stone"" gave the film three out of four stars, saying, ""The new Seven isn't aiming for cinema immortality. It's two hours of hardcore, shoot-em-up pow and it's entertaining as hell."" The Magnificent Seven (2016 film) The Magnificent Seven is a 2016 American western action film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Nic Pizzolatto and Richard Wenk. It is a remake of the 1960 film of the same name, which in turn is a reimagining of the 1954 film ""Seven Samurai"". The film stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier,"
"Obama. Donald Sutherland Donald McNichol Sutherland (born 17 July 1935) is a Canadian actor whose film career spans more than five decades. Sutherland rose to fame after starring in a series of successful films including ""The Dirty Dozen"" (1967), ""M*A*S*H"" (1970), ""Kelly's Heroes"" (1970), ""Klute"" (1971), ""Don't Look Now"" (1973), ""Fellini's Casanova"" (1976), ""1900"" (1976), ""Animal House"" (1978), ""Invasion of the Body Snatchers"" (1978), ""Ordinary People"" (1980) and ""Eye of the Needle"" (1981). He subsequently established himself as one of the most respected, prolific and versatile character actors of Canada. He later went on to star in many other successful"
"Donald Sutherland Donald McNichol Sutherland (born 17 July 1935) is a Canadian actor whose film career spans more than five decades. Sutherland rose to fame after starring in a series of successful films including ""The Dirty Dozen"" (1967), ""M*A*S*H"" (1970), ""Kelly's Heroes"" (1970), ""Klute"" (1971), ""Don't Look Now"" (1973), ""Fellini's Casanova"" (1976), ""1900"" (1976), ""Animal House"" (1978), ""Invasion of the Body Snatchers"" (1978), ""Ordinary People"" (1980) and ""Eye of the Needle"" (1981). He subsequently established himself as one of the most respected, prolific and versatile character actors of Canada. He later went on to star in many other successful films"
"Sensmeier is a member of the Native Wellness Institute, a youth advocacy, and is proud of his Alaska Native heritage. Martin Sensmeier Martin Sensmeier (born June 27, 1985) is an Alaska Native actor of Tlingit, Koyukon-Athabascan descent. He is one of the stars of the 2016 remake ""The Magnificent Seven"". Sensmeier was born in Anchorage, Alaska, to Raymond and Eva Sensmeier, but was raised in Yakutat. His father is Tlingit and his mother is Koyukon-Athabascan from Ruby, Alaska on the Yukon River. He began his professional career as a welder before working on an oil rig for Doyon Drilling. He"
"Pizzolatto had signed a new deal with HBO through 2018. In August 2016, HBO announced a potential new series written by Pizzolatto and starring Robert Downey Jr., centering on the character of investigative attorney Perry Mason. Along with Richard Wenk, Pizzolatto co-wrote the screenplay for ""The Magnificent Seven"" (2016), a remake of the period-piece western ""The Magnificent Seven"" (1960) (which was itself a western remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film ""Seven Samurai""). Antoine Fuqua directed, and the film, released on September 23, 2016, starred Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Ethan Hawke, Peter Sarsgaard and others. The first"
"Return of the Seven Return of the Seven (1966) (also called Return of the Magnificent Seven, and The Magnificent Seven 2) is the first sequel to the western, ""The Magnificent Seven"" (1960). Yul Brynner is the sole returning cast member from the first film, portraying Chris Adams. Robert Fuller assumes the role of Vin from Steve McQueen. The film was written by Larry Cohen and directed by Burt Kennedy, and features Warren Oates, Claude Akins, Jordan Christopher, Virgilio Teixeira and Julian Mateos (as Chico, replacing Horst Buchholz). Emilio Fernández is the villain. Fernando Rey portrays a priest. Rey was in"
"last film he appeared in before retiring in 2010. He has also appeared in numerous television series, most known for playing Mr. Freeze in two episodes of ""Batman"" in 1967. Eli Wallach credits The following is the filmography and credits for American actor Eli Wallach (December 7, 1915 – June 24, 2014). He started acting in 1945 and is known for his film roles as Calvera in ""The Magnificent Seven"" (1960), Tuco in ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" (1966), Napoleon in ""The Adventures of Gerard"" (1970), Cotton Weinberger in ""The Two Jakes"" (1990), Don Altobello in ""The Godfather"
"on May 22, 2007. They also released a complete series set on May 13, 2008. Won Nominations The Magnificent Seven (TV series) The Magnificent Seven is an American western television series based on the 1960 movie, which was itself a remake of the Japanese film ""Seven Samurai"". The series premiered on January 3, 1998, and ran for two seasons on CBS, airing through July 3, 2000. The cast of ""The Magnificent Seven"" included Michael Biehn, Eric Close, and Ron Perlman. Robert Vaughn, who played one of the seven gunmen in the original 1960 movie, had a recurring role as a"
"Dirty Harry (character) Inspector Harold Francis Callahan, also known as Dirty Harry, is a fictional character in the ""Dirty Harry"" film series, which consists of ""Dirty Harry"" (1971), ""Magnum Force"" (1973), ""The Enforcer"" (1976), ""Sudden Impact"" (1983) and ""The Dead Pool"" (1988). Callahan is portrayed by Clint Eastwood in each film. From his debut, Callahan became the template for a new kind of movie cop: an antihero who does not hesitate to cross professional and ethical boundaries in pursuit of his own vision of justice, especially when the law is poorly served by an inept bureaucracy. Callahan is often considered"
"Martin Sensmeier Martin Sensmeier (born June 27, 1985) is an Alaska Native actor of Tlingit, Koyukon-Athabascan descent. He is one of the stars of the 2016 remake ""The Magnificent Seven"". Sensmeier was born in Anchorage, Alaska, to Raymond and Eva Sensmeier, but was raised in Yakutat. His father is Tlingit and his mother is Koyukon-Athabascan from Ruby, Alaska on the Yukon River. He began his professional career as a welder before working on an oil rig for Doyon Drilling. He eventually quit to pursue an acting career in Los Angeles. Sensmeier began work as a professional model before entering into"
"in north Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The film premiered on September 8 at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, and was released in the United States in conventional and IMAX theatres on September 23, 2016. In ""The Magnificent Seven"", Washington plays Sam Chisolm (""the Bounty Hunter""), a duly sworn warrant officer from Wichita, Kansas. His character was renamed from Chris Adams (played by Yul Brynner in the original film) to Sam Chisolm. It is Washington's first Western film. Washington did not watch Westerns growing up, as it was the end of the Western era in the movies. Moreover, he and his"
"1967, he appeared in ""The Superlative Seven,"" an episode of ""The Avengers."" He also made a second, and more substantial appearance in ""The Saint."" The episode, ""Escape Route,"" was directed by the show's star, Roger Moore, who later recalled that Sutherland ""asked me if he could show it to some producers as he was up for an important role... they came to view a rough cut and he got ""The Dirty Dozen."""" The film, which starred Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson, was the 5th highest-grossing film of 1967 and MGM's highest-grossing movie of the year. In 1968, after the breakthrough"
"Brad Dexter Brad Dexter (born Boris Michel Soso; April 9, 1917 – December 12, 2002) was an American actor and film producer. He is known for tough-guy and western roles including the 1960 film ""The Magnificent Seven"" (1960) and producing several films for Sidney J. Furie such as ""Lady Sings the Blues"". He is also known for a short marriage to Peggy Lee, a friendship with Marilyn Monroe and for saving Frank Sinatra from drowning. Dexter's tough-guy roles contrasted with his easy going and friendly real-life personality. Dexter was born Boris Michel Soso in Goldfield, Nevada, the second of three"
"the KGB, in six films between 1977 and 1987; and Richard Kiel as Jaws, in ""The Spy Who Loved Me"" and ""Moonraker"", assisting 007 in the latter film. Joe Don Baker Joe Don Baker (born February 12, 1936) is an American character actor and a life member of the Actors Studio. He established himself as an action star with supporting roles as a mysterious cowboy drifter in ""Guns of the Magnificent Seven"" (1969), and as a deputy sheriff in the western ""Wild Rovers"" (1971), before receiving worldwide fame for his iconic roles as a mafia hitman in ""Charley Varrick"" (1973),"
"the magnificent seven, of the 1960 John Sturges western. Easy to start with: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, and Horst Buchholz. But if Brad Dexter... is usually the last to be mentioned, it is mainly because of the fame of the others; actually, he was rather good as the most mercenary of the septet. ... the cool and taciturn Harry Luck... The film's success did not immediately benefit Dexter's career: he returned to television, guest starring in ""The Aquanauts"", ""Hawaiian Eye"", ""General Electric Theatre"", ""Tales of Wells Fargo"", ""Surfside 6"", ""The Investigators"", ""Death Valley Days"""
"Joe Don Baker Joe Don Baker (born February 12, 1936) is an American character actor and a life member of the Actors Studio. He established himself as an action star with supporting roles as a mysterious cowboy drifter in ""Guns of the Magnificent Seven"" (1969), and as a deputy sheriff in the western ""Wild Rovers"" (1971), before receiving worldwide fame for his iconic roles as a mafia hitman in ""Charley Varrick"" (1973), real-life Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser in the classic action film ""Walking Tall"" (1973), brute force detective Mitchell in ""Mitchell"" (1975), deputy sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III in ""Final"
"Major Wright and Sergeant Holt, the survivors of the 'dirty dozen' are: Joseph Stern, Lieutenant Campbell, Joseph Hamilton, Fred Collins and Roberto Echevarria. The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission is a 1988 made-for-TV film directed by Lee H. Katzin, and is the third sequel to ""The Dirty Dozen"". It features an all-new ""dirty dozen"", with the exception of the returning Joe Stern, under the leadership of Major Wright (performed by Telly Savalas in his final film appearance). The plot concerns Major Wright and his convict commando squad attempting to stop 12 top Nazis, who"
"Seven (1995 film) Seven (stylized as SE7EN) is a 1995 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. It stars Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, John C. McGinley, R. Lee Ermey, and Kevin Spacey. It tells the story of David Mills (Pitt), a detective who partners with the retiring William Somerset (Freeman) to track down a serial killer (Spacey) who uses the seven deadly sins as a motif in his murders. The screenplay was influenced by the time Walker spent in New York City trying to make it as a writer. Principal"
"veteran. Hawke was the first person to come on board after the project was finalized. He had stumbled upon Fuqua and Washington during the New York premiere of ""The Equalizer"" in 2014 and, upon learning that a remake was in the works, asked Fuqua to cast him. Like Washington, ""The Magnificent Seven"" marks the third collaboration between Hawke and Fuqua, after ""Training Day"" (2001) and ""Brooklyn's Finest"" (2009). Manuel Garcia-Rulfo described his character Vasquez, a bandit on the run from the law, as someone who loves gunfighting. Martin Sensmeier auditioned several times to land the role of Red Harvest, a"
"Eli Wallach credits The following is the filmography and credits for American actor Eli Wallach (December 7, 1915 – June 24, 2014). He started acting in 1945 and is known for his film roles as Calvera in ""The Magnificent Seven"" (1960), Tuco in ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"" (1966), Napoleon in ""The Adventures of Gerard"" (1970), Cotton Weinberger in ""The Two Jakes"" (1990), Don Altobello in ""The Godfather Part III"" (1990), Donald Fallon in ""The Associate"" (1996), Arthur Abbott in ""The Holiday"" (2006), Noah Dietrich in ""The Hoax"" (2007), and Julie Steinhardt in """" (2010), which was the"
"including ones played by George Peppard (as a character known only as ""Space Cowboy"") and Robert Vaughn (playing essentially the same character as in ""The Magnificent Seven"") defend farmers from space raiders on the planet Akira (named after ""Seven Samurai"" director Akira Kurosawa). The 1980s action-adventure series ""The A-Team"" was initially devised as a combination of ""The Dirty Dozen"" and ""The Magnificent Seven"". The show's pilot film plays much on the plot of ""The Magnificent Seven"", and there are similar plot echoes in various other episodes. James Coburn was originally approached to play John ""Hannibal"" Smith, the team's leader, a"
"and was adapted specifically for him. Manuel Garcia-Rulfo Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (born February 25, 1981) is a Mexican actor. He is best known for roles in films such as ""Cake"" and ""Bless Me, Ultima"", as well as the television program """". He starred as one of the titular characters in the 2016 remake ""The Magnificent Seven"". Garcia-Rulfo was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He grew up on a ranch in Jalisco, where he learned to ride horses. At one point, he went to Vermont to study English. He attended Universidad del Valle de Atemajac where he majored in communications before he"
"Chris Adams (character) Chris Adams is a fictional character in the 1960 western film ""The Magnificent Seven"", originally played by Yul Brynner, whose portrayal of Chris Adams resembles Takashi Shimura's representation of Kambei. Chris Adams, a Cajun, is the laconic leader of a band of seven gunmen. He always wears black, smokes cigars, and shoots sharp. He is a man of principle, incorruptible and sturdy. Chris, and to a lesser extent the others of the Seven, are examples of the ""western hero""-archetype who is resolute, ""single minded"", ""independent"", ""strong"", ""loyal"", and ""honorable"" as well as having various other positive characteristics."
"Horst Buchholz Horst Werner Buchholz (4 December 1933 – 3 March 2003) was a German actor and voice actor who appeared in more than sixty feature films from 1951 to 2002. During his youth he was sometimes called ""the German James Dean."" He is perhaps best known in English-speaking countries for his role as Chico in ""The Magnificent Seven"" (1960), as a communist in Billy Wilder's ""One, Two, Three"" (1961) and as Dr. Lessing in ""Life Is Beautiful"" (1997). Horst Buchholz was born in Berlin, the son of Maria Hasenkamp. He never knew his biological father, but took the surname"
"John Sturges John Eliot Sturges (; January 3, 1910 – August 18, 1992) was an American film director. His movies include ""Bad Day at Black Rock"" (1955), ""Gunfight at the O.K. Corral"" (1957), ""The Magnificent Seven"" (1960), ""The Great Escape"" (1963), and ""Ice Station Zebra"" (1968). In 2013, ""The Magnificent Seven"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". He was not related to director Preston Sturges. He started his career in Hollywood as an editor in 1932. During World War II, he directed documentaries"
"Johnny Seven (actor) John Anthony Fetto, II (born February 23, 1926 – January 22, 2010), known professionally as Johnny Seven, was an American character actor who appeared in 26 films and approximately 600 television shows during his career, which spanned more than 40 years. His credits included a recurring role as Lt. Carl Reese on the 1968–1975 NBC television series ""Ironside"" and the 1960 film ""The Apartment"". Seven was born in Brooklyn, New York. His parents, who were Italian immigrants, also had five daughters. He began acting and singing as a teenager. He served with the United States Army in"
"The Magnificent Dope The Magnificent Dope is a 1942 American comedy film released by 20th Century Fox. It is also known as Lazy Galahad, Strictly Dynamite and The Magnificent Jerk. Dwight Dawson (Don Ameche) runs a hype-driven self-improvement course in the Dale Carnegie mode. He and his partner Horace Hunter (Edward Everett Horton) are seeking new sales ideas as enrollment has declined sharply. Their chief of marketing, Claire Harris (Lynn Bari), who is also Dwight's fiancée, comes up with an idea to announce a contest seeking the biggest loser in the country. The prize is $500 and Dwight's course in"
"and the scientists and their families all breathe heavy sighs of relief as the plane embarks on its trip back to England. Besides Major Wright and Sergeant Holt, the surviving members of the 'dirty dozen' include Joe Stern, Eric 'Swede' Wallan, Ernesto 'Pops' Ferucci and Francis Kelly, who earn their freedom. The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission is a 1987 made-for-TV film and is the second sequel to the original ""The Dirty Dozen"". It features an all-new 'dirty dozen,' this time under the leadership of Major Wright (Telly Savalas), playing a different role than"
"Manuel Garcia-Rulfo Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (born February 25, 1981) is a Mexican actor. He is best known for roles in films such as ""Cake"" and ""Bless Me, Ultima"", as well as the television program """". He starred as one of the titular characters in the 2016 remake ""The Magnificent Seven"". Garcia-Rulfo was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He grew up on a ranch in Jalisco, where he learned to ride horses. At one point, he went to Vermont to study English. He attended Universidad del Valle de Atemajac where he majored in communications before he realized his passion for filmmaking. He"
"Principal photography began on May 18, 2015, in the north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. ""The Magnificent Seven"" premiered on September 8, 2016, at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, and was released in the United States on September 23, 2016, in conventional and IMAX theatres. The film received mixed reviews from critics, although the cast and action sequences were praised, and grossed $162 million worldwide. In 1879, robber baron and gold-mining tycoon Bartholomew Bogue assumes control of the American frontier town of Rose Creek, and subjects its residents to forced labor in his mines. After a town church assembly denounces"